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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/rt: RT_RUNTIME_GREED sched feature
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2016 15:16:17 -0500
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Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2016 21:06:50 +0100
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <daniel@bristot.me> wrote:

> The throttling allowed the kworker to run, but once the kworker went to
> sleep, the RT tasks started to work again. In the previous behavior,
> the system would either go idle, or the kworker would starve because 
> the runtime become infinity for RR tasks.

I'm confused? Are you saying that RR tasks don't get throttled in the
current code? That sounds like a bug to me.

-- Steve